Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.

30 December 2009

hesti = leaf (noun) (some things Google found for "hesti": an uncommon term: a feminine first name that can be Indonesian; user names; an unusual last name; datative case of "stallion or horse" in Faroese and "horse" in Icelandic; similar name Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth)

26 December 2009

heidar = sand (noun) (some things Google found for "heidar": an uncommon term; an anglicised version of masculine first name Heiðar, notably Icelandic footballer Heiðar (or Heidar) Helguson; a last name and a masculine first name both of which can be Mid-Eastern and can be spelled as Heydar; Heidar Baba is a halal Persian Kabob restaurant in Pasadena, CA; Heidar, Rimewind Master is a card in Magic: The Gathering; Heidar Abad is a city in Iran)

22 December 2009

ugenki = sun (noun) (some things Google found for "ugenki": a rare term; user names; similar name Genki was a Japanese era in the 16th century and is a Japanese company in the computer and video games industry)

18 December 2009

suatz = salt (noun) (some things Google found for "suatz": an uncommon to rare term; a last name, notably Mr. Suatz the so-called most interesting man in the world in a Dos Equis beer commercial; user names; possibly a misspelling of last name "Swartz")

14 December 2009

noigan = witch (noun) (some things Google found for "noigan": an uncommon to rare term; user names; Noigan Primary School in Cheragany in Rift Valley of Kenya; an unusual last name; an Israeli website that sells garden furniture and decorative wine barrels; somewhat similarily named Noigandres group for concrete poetry in Brazil)

06 December 2009

mahka = magpie (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "mahka": an uncommon term; a first name, notably Japanese professional magician Mahka Tendo; an unusual last name; user names; Ak Mahka is a Arabic dance music artist; similarly named Makha Bucha (also known as Magha Puja) is a Buddhist religious festival in Thailand that usually falls in February)

My previous word for "magpie" -- the long-tailed, black and white bird -- was "maka". A good word, but a little too close to the Basque word. I decided to add the "h" from the Finnish word. The consonant combination of "hk" occurs in Finnish.

02 December 2009

pelari = linen (noun) (some things Google found for "pelari": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; Pelari Hair is a hairdresser in Walsall in the UK; maybe a first name; means "runner, sprinter" in Indonesian; means "runner" in Malay; name of a city in Afghanistan)

My previous Miresua conlang word for "linen" was "avari". There was nothing wrong with that word. But as I changed my word for wool to avile, I thought that I'd better change this word for linen so it wouldn't be so similar to word for wool.

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Young enough to daydream, old enough to be somewhat realistic. I'm creating words in a made-up language. I'm not a linguist. Mariska is an old-fashioned Hungarian form of the name Mary. It's pronounced Marishka.

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About Miresua

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).

Finnish language

Finnish (native name: Suomi) is spoken in Finland. It is a minority language in the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Estonia. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). There are about 6 million total speakers of Finnish.

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Basque language

Basque (native name: Euskara) is spoken by in Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France. Basque is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other living language. There are about 1 million total speakers of Basque.